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TIL People with Cystic Fibrosis are extremely dangerous to eachother

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4VBN TIL, Ancient Greeks and Romans used asbestos to make fire retardant materials so they could be cleaned by throwing them into the fire. Pliny the Elder noted that people who had contact with asbestos-containing materials acquired “sickness of the lungs.”
KYd6G TIL that breast milk is as effective as ophthalmic solutions (eye drops) in infants with eye discharge
R76o6 TIL - Rob Cantor created a song where Shia LaBeouf is a ruthless cannibal.
EkJ0 TIL the female equivalent to the word “phallic” is “yonic.”
Bwrk TIL Sorrell Booke (the dude who played Boss Hogg in Dukes of Hazzard) was fluent in five languages, had degrees from Yale and Columbia Universities, and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer.